High wall shear stress gradient suppress morphological responses of endothelial cells to fluid flow

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 312-313

  Sato, M ^a   Saito, N ^a   Sakamoto, N ^a   Ohashi, T ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell orientation; Endothelial cell; Morphology; Wall shear stress; Wall shear stress gradient

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOPHYSICS; CYTOLOGY; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL PHYSICS; MORPHOLOGY; PARALLEL FLOW; SHEAR STRESS;

ARTERIAL BIFURCATIONS; CELL ORIENTATION; CEREBRAL ANEURYSMS; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; MORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PARALLEL PLATE FLOW CHAMBER; WALL SHEAR STRESS; WALL SHEAR STRESS GRADIENTS;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 77950110290     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03882-2_82     Document Type: Conference Paper

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